Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Guide

Fishing the Mosquito Lagoon for trophy sized redfish with a professional fishing guide.

Mosquito Lagoon is one of the most presteen estuaries on the eastern seaboard of the United States in North America and holds huge populations of trophy sized redfish and spotted seatrout that can be found by using a professional Mosquito lagoon fishing guide that's native to the area.

Traveling across Mosquito Lagoon in a high speed boat specifially designed to zoom across the shallow crystal clear water to pursue big redfish in skinny (shallow) water that's often less than one foot deep is a thrill for every angler on his first time. The expectation of finding, stalking and casting for redfish in the shallows can cause a grown man's knees to shake with "buck fever" as he steathfully approaches redfish and makes cast within 75 feet of his quarrie.

The twin brothers above had a great day of fishing with Captain Richard Bradley on the Mosquito Lagoon near Titusville and Kennedy Space Center, Florida. "We had a blast and will be coming back as soon as possible to go fishing for Red Drum with Captain Richard again", explains one of the angling brothers.

"My anglers catch these giant channel bass or puppy drum in the backwaters of the Mosquito Lagoon and often in the Lagoons adjacent to the Mosquito Lagoon almost everyday", Captain Richard explains. "Every year seems to get better and better and as Florida's conservation efforts seem to be working very well".

Looking for information about fishing the Mosquito Lagoon area and it's redfish in Central Florida? Call (321) 868-4953 and Ask for Captain Richard or his fishing mate Captain Gina. They'll be more than glad to talk to you in length about setting up a fishing trip while you're visiting the area.

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Read Captain Richard's July Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Fishing Report.

Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Information

Redfish are undoubtably the most popular inshore gamefish in the Mosquito Lagoon area. A redfish's size, habits, habitat and quality meat make it a remarkable challenge for anglers to pursue in the shallow water estuaries surrounding the Mosquito Lagoon.

There are many different ways to catch a redfish on the Mosquito Lagoon but the most popular is by sightfishing in the shallow waters while push-poling along in a shallow draft boat made popular in the last few decades by manufacturers that are designed and made specifically to pursue redfish and other shallow water preditor species around many of Florida's lagoon system. Mosquito Lagoon redfish guide Captain Richard Bradley uses his high performance shallow water boat made by Action Craft to transport his anglers to-and-from the fishing locations on the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon on Florida's East Coast.

Redfish are popular to anglers because of the multitude of methods that can be used to pursue them. Most anglers prefer spinning tackle with artificial lures like weedless spoons or soft plastic jerk baits, while others opt to use a fly rod and favorite redfish streamer patterns from seaducers to clousers. Fly fisherman can also use crab and shrimp patterns for red drum as well. Many times a simple dead or cut bait works well on redfish and often live bait like mullet, pilchards or shrimp will out smart redfish like nothing else.

Our redfish on the east coast spawn in the fall and usually stick around the lagoon all winter long to feed and forage before heading for inlets and beaches for the spring and summer. Many researchers have claimed that the Mosquito Lagoon redfish stay year-a-round in the shallow water Lagoons, but there has been evidence lately to show (by tagging) that many seek the local inlets and beaches during parts of the year to feed on the fall mullet run or just to get in the ocean from time-to-time. It's a sure bet that if you fish long enough around Florida, you'll run into a redfish eventually and it might be bigger than you expected, especially if it's in the Mosquito Lagoon.